Terms of Use - FAQ

• Access our awesome hosted services (hosted data storage, analysis, geocoding, directions, maps, etc).
• You can develop and test apps using our developer tools and APIs. If you're going to generate revenue or are using the app for government or business purposes, you'll have to upgrade to a paid ArcGIS Deployment Plan when you're ready to make your application available.
• You can also use this plan to build apps for public, non-revenue generating, non-government, non-commercial use.
• You can also sell your apps to anyone to use with their paid ArcGIS Online subscription.
• If you are using 3rd Party development tools, you must include attribution acknowledging that your app is using online services provided by Esri. More information is available here.

You receive 50 credits per month. If you don't use those credits, they'll expire and you will receive another 50 credits the next month.

You can use your credits on any of our hosted services. If you spent all your credits on any one of the hosted services, you'd be able to:

• Generate 50,000 map tiles
• Store 208 MB of features
• Store 41 GB of map tiles
• Geocode 1,250 addresses
• Perform 1,250 simple routes
• Perform 100 optimized routes
• Perform 100 drive time calculations
• Perform 100 closest facility calculations
• Perform 25 delivery optimization routes
• Enrich your data with 5,000 variables
• Check out 4,545 Infographic views
• Draw 50,000 demographic maps
• Generate 5 demographic reports
• Perform spatial analysis on 50,000 features

You're also allowed to view 1,000,000 basemaps per month without consuming any credits.

• Access our awesome hosted services (hosted data storage, analysis, geocoding, directions, maps, etc.)
• Sell your apps (powered by your paid deployment subscription) to anyone.
• You can also sell your apps to anyone to use with their paid ArcGIS Online subscription.
• Include for-fee ads with a paid deployment plan.
• Build apps using our developer tools and APIs.
• Build apps using 3rd party tools (such as Leaflet.)

With a paid deployment plan you can build and sell apps but let's dive into specifics:

• Can I sell my apps in app stores? Yes
• Can I sell my apps to 3rd party companies? Yes
• Can I include for-fee ads? Yes
• Are there royalties? No, you only need to pay your ArcGIS Online deployment plan fees.

If you use resources from ArcGIS Online no. If you use our map services, you must keep all logos and other attribution on the maps. See this resource for more details on when you can and can't remove the attribution.

It depends. Esri requires that when you use an ArcGIS Online basemap, Esri data services, or Esri API technology in your app you must also include Esri attribution. See this resource for more details on when to display Esri attribution.

No. If you want to generate revenue with your app, you need to purchase a paid ArcGIS Online Deployment Plan.

No. Using Esri basemaps in your apps does not consume credits but you are limited to using 1 million basemaps per month.

Yes. You are entitled to use 1 million basemap transactions per month. If you think you'll need more, contact us.

No. Using geosearch in your apps to find a single address does not consume credits but you are limited to 1 million geosearches per month.

Yes. You are entitled to use 1 million geosearch transactions per month. If you think you'll need more, give us a call - http://www.esri.com/about-esri/contact.

No. You can build and sell as many as you want.

This is not permitted.

No. The Organizational Account has all of the same capabilities as the Deployment Plan Account, plus it allows for sharing and collaboration among a number of users.

You can create AppIDs in the applications section of developers.arcgis.com or from the Content section of arcgis.com (once logged in).

An app is considered commercial if:

• You license or sell it to others for a fee.
• You derive ad-generated revenue from the app.

If you want to sell or otherwise monetize your app, you need to have a paid ArcGIS Online Deployment Plan.